hamas official. initial reports are perhaps that the family was warned by the israelis to evacuate. on some occasions they do do that. they will warn people in the area before a strike is about to occur. we do not have any reports of casualties just yet. this most certainly is not the first time that we're seeing the israelis striking. people's homes when they are trying to target the hamas senior leadership. and on some occasions we have, in fact, seen the casualties of those air strikes be innocent civilians. people who have nothing to do with hamas, nothing to do with its political leadership. as we saw in the strike that took place on sunday that left at least nine members of a family dead, to include three children and a baby. but we have been hearing a series of explosions here over the last few hours. so most certainly the israelis are saying that they're hoping their ground operations for the time being, they have not been halting their strikes on this very densely populated city. >> not halt